ACC590 - Accounting Internships

An internship can provide a valuable contribution to your undergraduate education and be an attractive component of your resume. Internships lead to valuable networking opportunities and very frequently to full-time employment after graduation.

The PICPA sponsored a pizza and accounting careers dinner. One junior and five senior accounting majors discussed the value of their internships, as well as how they led to future employment offers.
Thanks to PICPA Campus Representative, Julie Powell '15, for organizing.

Alyssa Natale '14 , staff accountant with Carbis Walker LLP, informed students about what to expect their first year in the working world and what it takes to pass the Uniform CPA Exam.

Professor Smith and Professor Ligo were present to field questions regarding the 150 hour requirement and internship credits.

Recent Internship Experiences:

"Some of the financial advisory work I was able to do was learning about betas and how to read certain stock reports and analysis."

JFS Wealth Advisors
"I do not consider myself to have been a bad student before my internship, but I do feel that my experiences in an office environment with individuals that work extremely hard to do the best that they can made me work harder as a student for my final two semesters of college."

"It was a great learning experience and I feel I gained an extraordinary advantage over other students who have not had a similar internship experience."

Hill, Barth, and King LLC
"From business etiquette when speaking to clients and partners to actual principles learned in my classes when doing tax returns, it was really cool to see the things that I learned in the classroom come to life in the work environment."

"I was constantly busy doing something and I learned so much about the finance industry. I also learned about investing for retirement and the many different options that people are faced with including 401(k)s, annuities, mutual funds, and third party active investment agencies."

Diehl Accounting
"My internship at Diehl has given me an inside look at a different route to pursue in accounting. There is an appeal to a small local firm that serves smaller family owned businesses in a close and trusting relationship."

"I was hired for the purpose of inventorying all the fixed assets on the college's depreciable assets list and then adding new assets, bringing depreciation up to date, and then finally adding it to the new fixed asset module within the accounting software."